Let's play "Post Your Favorite Trivia"

[5thGenDemocrat]

Since this is the lounge, I don't think strict footnote and annotating is necessary, but feel free to call someone on their references if it sounds like total BS.
Here are a couple pieces of trivia I've learned in the past month or so:
1. Eliot Ness, long after his days as head of the Untouchables (and police commissioner of Cleveland), was president of Diebold (it made safes then).
2. The head of the New Jersey State Police at the time of the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping was Norman Schwartzkopf, the father of the other Norman Schwartzkopf.
I have more. My brain absorbs stuff like this (I'm a whiz at Jeopardy).
John
Though I have no idea, for example, where my wallet is just now.

[elperromagico]

1. Elvis had a twin that died at birth.

Woody Harrelson's father is a convicted contract killer.

Only one President has said "affirm" rather than "swear" in the Presidential oath: Franklin Pierce.

Carl Perkins wrote the song "Blue Suede Shoes" on a paper sack.

The original choice to play Archie Bunker was Mickey Rooney, and the original choice to play Dirty Harry was Frank Sinatra.

The handwritten musical manuscripts of Arnold Schoenberg do not contain any measures numbered 13. Rather, they are all numbered 12B or some other way. Schoenberg suffered from triskaidekaphobia, fear of the number 13.

Turning someone into a zombie is considered as severe an offense as murder in Haiti.

Emperor Melenik of Abyssinia, impressed by the use of electrocution for capital offenders in the United States, decided to order three electric chairs for use in his kingdom. Unfortunately, Abyssinia did not have electricity at the time. But no matter - the emperor used one of the chairs as his throne.

[caledesi]

2. Howard Dean's mother was a bridesmaid at Barb Bush's wedding.